Jan,
>>
I am running the An1x-edit from a PC, and I am having no problems with
the "ophone"-patch. It didn't crash and my An1x recieved the patches without
problem, so how can it be a bug in the An1x-edit????.
<<
The nature of the problem means its very dependent on what data is already
in the PC memory space. IF there are plenty of zeros where the comment
strings get loaded, then the unterminated string sizes will remain small
(i.e. existing zeros in memory will act as terminators). However if there
are no zeros, the strings don't get terminated and appear to be huge. This
in turn crashes the app when it tries to manipulate them. Since there is no
way of knowing what's already in memory or where the app gets loaded
to...the whole situation is indeterminate. It may work fine in some
cases....or cause a total system crash in others.
Basically its just a bad bit of programming on my part....but unfortunately
one of those programming errors that's hard to spot if you don't see the
mistake immediately. Furthermore, since not many people actually write huge
comments into their AN1 library files....its not the kind of thing that will
immediately start to generate end user bug reports ;-(
Regards
Gary
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